# (un?)intentionally funny signs, ads, & business names, revisited **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587 "2005-04-16T02:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/41 "2005-04-17T16:54:00Z")
[There was this “FBI warning” on fight club, which was an intentionally funny sign](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/finnagain/fbi_warning_tyler.jpg) [Then there was this church sign, dunno if it’s a fake or not, but man did I laugh hard at it.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/finnagain/For%20the%20masses/weakminded_people.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/42 "2005-04-17T17:01:59Z")
I saw a scarecrow in a field once, with a sign around his neck which read: “Boo! Hiss!” ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/43 "2005-04-17T21:10:54Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > In the yellow pages: > > Seegars Fence Co: “Dependable Erection Since 1949” > > 😃 And also > [@Ludovic](#): > > Then there’s the subcontractor in Texas called Mammoth Erections Loses something in translation, but there’s a … um … _male improvement_ clinic here in Israel whose slogan (and they got the national radio to air it!) goes something like: “If it isn’t hard for you… call us!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/44 "2005-04-17T21:37:10Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > [Then there was this church sign, dunno if it’s a fake or not, but man did I laugh hard at it.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/finnagain/For%20the%20masses/weakminded_people.jpg) It’s not fake – it’s supposed to make you curious enough to look up the passage: > [@](#): > > _And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong._ – 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 I don’t know how great a pitch it is, though. It whiffs a little of Orwell’s “Ignorance is Strength,” painted on MiniTru. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/45 "2005-04-17T21:40:56Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > There’s a head-scratcher not too far from me - it’s a BBQ restaurant with one of those lighted portable signs where you can put your own message with the big, plastic letters. All it says is “Clean Restrooms” - ummmm… I’m thinking if the only good thing you can say about your restaurant is that the bathrooms are clean, I’m not so sure I want to eat there. There’s a well-known dive bar in this town whose only remnant of its former incarnation is a sign that says VERRES STÉRILISÉES (sterilized glasses). The bar has been renamed _Verres stérilisées_. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/46 "2005-04-17T22:11:26Z")
There used to be an electrician here named D. Lord whose truck read “Let D. Lord light the way” I always got a groan out of that. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/47 "2005-04-17T22:16:41Z")
[This](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/lovepole.jpg) classic double entendre sign was posted in a local Albertson’s grocery. ---
**Author:** ![IKinSpelGud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@IKinSpelGud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IKinSpelGud)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/48 "2005-04-17T22:19:43Z")
Here in Eugene there’s a run-down, out-of-business video store. The sign that’s still on the building says, in large letters, “(Name of business) Video Store!” In small letters underneath: “and tanning!” With that business model, how could it have failed? It’s also kind of funny to see a video rental place with a “For Rent” sign in the window. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/49 "2005-04-17T23:33:25Z")
> [@IKinSpelGud](#): > > With that business model, how could it have failed? Heh. In Vancouver, we used to have: **HANDLEBARS** BARBER SHOP & BICYCLE REPAIR (The painted window featured a handlebar mustache framing the shop name, natch.) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/50 "2005-04-17T23:43:35Z")
There’s a restaurant chain called NORMS. No apostrophe, no lowercase letters. Just NORMS. The signs in the parking lots say “Parking for NORMS only.” I always wonder where the muties have to park. Lousy anti-radioactive segregationists. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/51 "2005-04-18T00:16:18Z")
I’ve seen a van driving around town for a local plumb-o-rooter business, with the slogan: “BECAUSE IT HAPPENS” ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/52 "2005-04-18T00:25:43Z")
A local church runs a soup kitchen called the Open Door. The sign out front says “The Open Door welcomes you. Entrance in rear.” My mom and I always crack up at that. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/53 "2005-04-18T02:36:44Z")
ooh! ooh! Y’all have reminded me of the name of a church I pass from time-to-time. It’s called **Christ Evangelical Free Church** ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/54 "2005-04-18T13:47:09Z")
We used to have a dentist sharing a building with a bank. What’s left these days is a large sign facing the street side: GENERAL DENTISTRY Drive Thru ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/55 "2005-04-18T14:45:39Z")
A new Chinese restaurant just opened near my office. It’s called “King Wang.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/56 "2005-04-18T14:51:13Z")
Every morning, I drive past a local BBQ joint. As long as I can remember, they’ve had this sign out front: “EAT HERE EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU - We need the business.” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/57 "2005-04-18T14:52:13Z")
I occasionally pass a small, family owned garage in the “Little Chinatown” area of Houston. The name on the sign reads AUTO HO. And I always wonder… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587/58 "2005-05-02T23:08:21Z")
In Lebanon, PA, you can visit [Loser’s Music Store.](http://www.digitalcity.com/harrisburg/shopping/main.adp?_diraction=detail&_dircid=107831629) No boloney. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-intentionally-funny-signs-ads-business-names-revisited/299587.md?page=2)